MY BLOG

As I write this article its nearing the end of an exceptionally long rainy January (2026). Those sort of days when you want it to get dark because at least the street lights come on! The driving rain is covering my tiny lawn with puddles but a brief visit from a pair of blackbirds looking for worms cheers me up a bit. I am feeling a sense of disappointment as I haven’t really hit the ground running with photography so far this year, despite my gung-ho new year social media po

As usual the year has come and gone in a rush. Some years involve exciting trips away, such as Iceland last year, but 2025 has been shooting closer to home. And that’s perfectly fine. The UK has a bountiful choice of locations to keep landscape photographers busy and I didn’t even go further north than Weston super Mare, my home town. So I’ll show you five locations that I visited in 2025, some I got to tick off my list for the first time and others it was a repeat visit. Alt

I'll never forget the night of the 10th of May, 2024 and neither will my fellow photographers. I was in Godrevy, West Cornwall near St. Ives watching pillars of pink and green slice through the night sky. THE AURORA TAKEN AT GODREVY BEACH, CORNWALL - 10th MAY, 2024. I was grieving that night because Joan, my older sister, had just passed away from a short illness. In 2018 she survived pneumonia which led to sepsis leaving her an amputee. She adapted to that with bravery, grac

Well yes, I suppose I am that! I am rather accident prone and I do quite often fall over on shoots, luckily not yet over a cliff or on a slippery rock incurring a severe spinal injury. I think I am more concerned about the safety of my equipment then myself. Despite that I did nearly once lose a lens to the depth of Christchurch Quay! In deep concentration at Stourhead So I am a hobbyist landscape photographer and I've been doing this for about seven years. I am originally fr

As I pack my camera bag to prepare for my latest shoot, deciding what lenses are appropriate and checking my weather apps etc., I always wish I hadn't overlooked one safety issue a few years ago. I'll never know for sure, but I am pretty sure I went out shooting on a summer evening in the New Forest, got bitten and ended up with Lyme disease. In my case it's affected my brain leading to a motor speech disorder which has caused a lot of devastation and mental distress. Ticks l